Science SARU

Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and inseparable friends as their larger-than-life concerts propel them to stardom in 14th century Japan.

In a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu.

It is August 12th. After the remote control to his boarding house's only air conditioning unit is inadvertently destroyed by spilled cola, "I" devises a plan to return to yesterday in a time machine to recover the remote before it breaks. However, his prankster friend Ozu cannot resist playing with past events, even if it means bringing the universe to the brink of destruction. Now "I" finds himself racing through time to avoid disaster.

The Mutou family leads a peaceful life: Kouichirou works at a construction site and his wife Mari is returning from an overseas trip. Their daughter Ayumu has just finished her track practice while their son Gou is playing video games at home. However, life as they know it is flipped upside down when a calamitous earthquake strikes the entire Japanese archipelago—obliterating the face of the country in an instant. With society crumbling around them and their nation gradually sinking into the ocean, the Mutou family must band together to survive the catastrophe. Treading the near-apocalyptic setting, they struggle not only to stay alive, but also to learn the difficulty of coping with loss.

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the 'colors' of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite. Kimi, a classmate at her school, gives off the most beautiful color of all. Although she doesn't play an instrument, Totsuko forms a band with Kimi and Rui, a quiet music enthusiast they meet at a used bookstore in a far corner of town. As they practice at an old church on a remote island, music brings them together, forming friendships and stirring affections.

The antics of two young deities are captured in an adaption of a mythic tale from the Kojiki, the most ancient of Japanese books. Directed by Akitoshi Yokoyama (CUTIE HONEY UNIVERSE, IRINA: THE VAMPIRE COSMONAUT), it’s part of the ORIGINAL SHORT ANIME DAISAKUSEN! series of micro-shorts, a collaboration between Mainichi Broadcasting Service and celebrated anime studio Science SARU (INU-OH, STAR WARS: VISIONS, SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF).

As a group of university students go out for a night on the town, a sophomore known only as "The Girl with Black Hair" experiences a series of surreal encounters with the local nightlife – all the while unaware of the romantic longings of "Senpai", a senior student who has been creating increasingly fantastic and contrived reasons to run into her in an effort to win her heart.

An untidy room. Empty beer tins, empty wine bottles, a half-empty glass of whisky... A girl is getting up absent-mindedly and starts preparing herself. YOUR morning starts. Lazy and hard-to-wake-up YOU. The emoticon is ME watching over YOU. I play tricks on YOU, while YOU are playing the guitar and drinking. One day, in town, YOU walk past THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND who is buying an Anemone I liked, and remembering that I liked them, YOU rush out to buy them. THE CHILDHOOD FRIEND displays the Anemone with care. One day, years after I died, YOU hear noise from the closet. Opened, YOU see MY garden right in front of YOU. Overflowing emotions of ME and YOU. When exiting from the room with memories, a picture of the Anemone that YOU painted is displayed in YOUR new room.

The story begins on a planet somewhere in the universe, when "Moon," an alien carrying a large sack, meets "Aiken," a dog in a space suit.

A heartwarming short anime story with no dialogue, showing how "Moon" and "Aiken," two creatures of different species, spend life together freely and happily.

A trapped bird, a mountaintop sunset, a painting in a museum—a picture-perfect poem without words, part of the ORIGINAL SHORT ANIME DAISAKUSEN! series of micro-shorts, a collaboration between Mainichi Broadcasting Service and celebrated anime studio Science SARU (INU-OH, STAR WARS: VISIONS, SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF), this one co-directed by studio’s president and co-founder, Choi Eunyoung.